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The Point is Newsday Opinion's daily newsletter inside the local, city and state political scenes.
The Point is Newsday Opinion's daily newsletter inside the local, city and state political scenes.
Over the weekend the world watched as Yevgeny Prigozhin, commander of the Wagner mercenary group hired by Russia President Vladimir Putin to help invade Ukraine, turned his troops toward Moscow after Putin had issued a warrant for his arrest. After getting halfway to Moscow with little resistance, a deal was brokered to allow him to go to Belarus, Prigozhin stood down and returned his troops to their camps. In the second cartoon, US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito is depicted taking a fishing trip on a private jet, which was based on this latest revelation reported by ProPublica. Editorial ...
The Point is Newsday Opinion's daily newsletter inside the local, city and state political scenes.
Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley wrote an opinion piece on Fox News insisting how badly the nation needs a “very basic” competency test for politicians over the age of seventy-five. She has the audacity to tell us that President Biden needs to take the “Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV." test. If there is such a thing, a “Trustworthiness. Morals. Integrity. Empathy.” test would be much more important. One must remember that, while good advisors can refresh a president's memory, nothing can restore a person's integrity. Paraphrasing Haley: "Voters deserv...